Shini Chandramohan’s Reviews > What My Mother and I Don't Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence > Status Update

The other thing that saved me was being in a long-term romantic relationship. I tantrummed for years and when I was done, he was still there. With him I had all the emotions I had not been allowed to have as a child, because for the first time, I knew I was safe. Some deep part of me recognized that I could trust him, even though I didnt consciously believe this until years later.

"This is how I survived my childhood: I disappeared. As a child, I slipped into books, and everything around me, including my own body, faded away. It was a very conscious act. I've never really fully returned from that early dissociation" - FFS this hit hard....

"Sometimes they said we spoke English well and it was supposed to be a compliment. They didn't seem to know that we had been born with the language in our mouths because of a certain cruel history, so we smiled and said thank you."

It is brighter and warmer and I am back from my slump - hopefully with a vengance!!!!

It sat on my bedside table for 2 weeks before I decided enough is enough I can be a big girl and read this